Charles Colton Quotes

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

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Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real its pleasures imaginary.

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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

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Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

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If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.

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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

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True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done and when they disapprove you, what good.

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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

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